Is there a time you can look back into your life where you think your fetish comes from? Well here is your opportunity to tell your story.

Two ladies from New York are creating an anthology of autobiographical stories about when you first discovered your interest in kink – D/s, S/m, fetish, etc. – and how it affected you. Tell them about pulling that girl's hair on the playground and how you later discovered your love for doing rope bondage, or about your first cross dressing fantasy, and what it felt like to acknowledge your interest in latex.

For submission guidelines email: kinkanthologies@gmail.com or check out www.myspace.com/kinkanthologies

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Favor is a exciting new latex brand owned by Andrea and Markus, a young latex loving couple from Haan in Germany. Besides creating some classic sexy latex designs, Andrea and Markus hope to design "street" latex wear that you can wear in your everyday life, as a way to express yourself as a true fetishist.

BodyCult has updated their website with the first part of their 2006 latex collection. Notice the new structural latex designs, one of BodyCult specialties. Also new is the accessories section with a variety of unique, glamorous latex handbags.

Crazy-Rubber & Friends have published a new interview with a very interesting person. She calles herself "a rubber doctor and rubber therapist, rubber nun and rubber whore, rubber lady and rubber exhibitionist... an adorable although luckily deviant rubber goddess". Yes, Natalia tells about herself and her thoughts about latex and the fetish-scene.

Interview with Natalia...

With Kink in the Caribbean 7 and Rubber Ball New York just around the corner, let's look some other upcoming events.

Planet Bizzare - The very first fetish and art fair in South Germany will take place in Munich, 10. - 11. of November! In the main hall, more than 40 exhibitors will offer the latest in fetish clothing, shoes, toys and accessories. In the smaller hall serves as a fetish artist gallery. The event stage features a exciting line of fetish performers and fashion shows. Opening times to the fair are 3-12 pm on Friday and 2-12 pm on Saturday. After-fair parties are taking place on Friday and Saturday. Tickets cost 18.00 EURO in advance or 25.00 EURO in the door.

In Canada, the Fetish Ball 2006 is Friday November 3, from 9 pm - 2 am at the Embassy West Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Ball Room offers a dance floor, social area, fetish photographer and stage area. A dungeon will host BDSM equipment as well as a spectators area. The cost is $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

They are finally here; the Rubber Ball Weekend photos!

I have updated the latex gallery with 105 party photos from the Torture Garden friday and saturday Rubber Ball! I'm sorry it took me so long. All photos was taken by Mark Bennett.

My personal galleries has also been updated. Enjoy!

Labels: fetish party, latex event, latex gallery, skin two

GummiFolk.com, scandinavians largest online community for latex and rainwear lovers, is shutting down November 1st.

Bizarra, the website admin, explains; "After much consideration, I have decided that GummiFolk.com have to shutdown. I don't have the time and recourses required to keep up two websites. Therefore I have decided to merge the site into FetishFolk.com and use all my time there."

Brian Alexander, MSNBC.com's Sexploration columnist, is traveling around the US to find out how Americans get sexual satisfaction. This time he meet the fetish people.











"While it’s not every night you find yourself stepping off a bus behind a 6-foot man dressed as Little Bo Peep, that’s not why I’m staring at him.

This bus is full of people going to a party at a club here called The Chambers, after spending the day at the Hyatt Regency for "FetishCon," an annual convention that is part trade show, part classroom, part nighttime scene for fetish aficionados and the merely curious.

In a little while, some of the several hundred people in attendance will be chained to large steel Xs and flogged with leather cat-o-nine tails. Men will crawl on all fours and lick the feet of the women who brought them. One topless woman, her skin painted with a mural by a professional artist named Pashur, will dance for hours in a pair of giant boots that make her 7 feet tall.

So compared with this phalanx of PVC, leather and latex, Bo Peep looks practically normal."

MSNBC.com has the story
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From the 6th November 2006 Torture Garden Clothing and House of Harlot will merge production facilities and staff to form one larger and more efficient team to manufacture latex clothing for both brands.

This will mean that Torture Garden Clothing will move into the current Holloway Road premises of House of Harlot, and there will be a short change-over period where production and manufacturing will be interrupted. Both companies will try to make this time as short as possible.

As well as merging production and facilities to be more efficient, this will also mean that head designer / owner of House of Harlot - Robin Archer - will take over as designer for Torture Garden Clothing.

Torture Garden Clothing is seeking a new designer to take the brand forward, and as most of you will be aware, Robin has established himself as one of the most talented and successful latex designers in the world in the last 15 years.

Torture Garden Clothing and House of Harlot will remain clearly distinct and individual brands with their own identity.

Moving TG production to Holloway road will mean that we will now have a much better and more accessible showroom from which to view and purchase Torture Garden latex.

Woke up at 1pm. Went for breakfast with my brother. Afterwards we went for a walk around London; London Eye, Piccadilly Circus and the Soho area.

Later, I visited the Skin Two Expo a last time. There where only a few visitors there. It's clear that Saturday was the most popular day, with many people shopping for something cool to wear for the Rubber Ball. I stayed for a couple of hours, talked to a few friends, afterwards I went home to get some food and to catch some sleep.

We when to the after party "The Finale" around 9pm. The venue was a very classy club called "Abacus", in right next to the Bank of London. There was two rooms with bars, one with a play area, the other with a dance floor and plenty of lounge space.

The party had started at 6pm, but when I arrived, the place was almost empty! I guess many was tired after Saturday night. It seemed like forever, but the placed got filled slowly and the party was at its highest around midnight. After 1pm people started to leave and so did we.

The Skin Two Rubber Ball Weekend 2006 had ended! See you all again next year!

After a quick visit to my favorite Japanese restaurant, we went back to the hotel and got ready for the main event.

I wore jeans, t-shirt, a long apron, elbow length industrial gloves and goggles. All black, all latex. I looked like something from "Hostel", the horror movie presented by Quentin Tarantino. The only thing there was missing was the blood.

We took off together with the rest of the Danes from the hotel and took the underground to Rubber Ball venue "SeOne" by London Bridge. When we arrived there where already a long line outside the main entrance. There where actually another entrance for people without bags or coats. A great improvement, compared to last year. We did not spend more than 10 min in line.

The SeOne venue consist of a series of rooms, all of them teamed to fit the "Screen and stage" theme set by Skin Two. From the changing area and cloakroom you could walk down the "Oscar Ally", a tunnel of red draped silk. The rooms was named "The Sci-Fi Room", "Casablanca", "The Main Feature", "Enter the Dragon", "Hammer House of Horror Dungeon", "The Interval" and where decorated accordingly. Almost every room included a huge bar and lounge areas, except "The Main Feature" there was a huge dance floor and the "Hammer House of Horror Dungeon" a huge playroom with various s/m equipment.

There where all kind of performances during the night. Midori and Kumi did a great bondage show and RubberDoll a naughty show with a girlfriend. There where many others performances, but nothing that really sparked my interest.

I was disappointed to learn that the biggest show of them all, the once so fabulous fashion show, had been dropped. It's clear that the reason for this is lack of a single large room there could accommodate a stage and the lack of backstage area. Sad, but that's how it is.

Instead people watched all the great dresses, suits and costumes the other guests was wearing. There was plenty of amazing latex fashions walking around; Nova and Atticus was wearing matching purple catsuits and hoods, Jane Doe was wearing a cool black and white gown with white markings, Martin showed up in his blue Elvis suit and RubberDoll appeared in stunning black dress with red flower prints.

As always I spend most of the night talking to old friends, meeting new people, dancing and having fun. I had a good time, but when I wanted to go home, I discovered that my wardrobe ticket (and one of my industrial rubber gloves!) had gone missing during the night. So I had to wait an hour until most of the other guest had left, before I could get my bag. I was really tired and just wanted to get some sleep. A unlucky end of such a exciting night.

(Photos by Mark Bennett)

The Sugababes is out with a new video for their latest single "Easy"!

Amelle Berrabah, Heidi Range and Keisha Buchanan of Sugababes shot the video, dressed in latex, at Harlesden on September 26th in London. I don't know who designed the latex clothing (photos), if you do, please leave a comment.

Sugababes greatest hits album - "Overloaded: The Singles Collection" is due November 13th in the U.K.

I woke up around noon and met up with my brother at Starbucks Cafe for some coffee. Afterwards we walked around Holloway Road's fetish shops. So it was in the late afternoon I made my way to the Skin Two Expo at the Barbican Exhibition Centre.

As always there where large number of fetish vendors from all over the world. Latex clothing, kinky boots and shoes, various accessories, jewellery, bondage and s/m equipment, kinky furniture and much, much more.

On the upper floor where the "Cafe Club", where people was sitting around talking and meeting up with friends. There where also various fashion shows, bondage/suspension demonstration and a photographer gallery.

I spend the rest of the afternoon talking with various people. Talked to Skin Two's sweet webmistress - Rachel. Talked to Martin and Bianca about their new book: Fetish Sex Symbol and picked up a signed copy for myself. Then I met the couple behind Hedony Design and Maxime Avet a French fetish photographer.

I left the Expo around 7pm. Next up, the Skin Two Rubber Ball!

(Photos by A. Horn)

Here is a list of the photo galleries of different photographers there attented the SkinTwo RubberBall weekend 2006:
Skin Two* ,Latex News, ErosArts, LondonFetishScene.

* New Gallery!

Leave a comment is you have a link for the list.

It was past 11pm when Nova, Atticus, my brother and I arrived at the Torture Garden Skin Two Special party at the "Renaissance Rooms" near Vauxhall.

The venue offered 3 teamed rooms: Club Arena; a big dance floor with a large cage in the middle and a bar. Eclectic Ballroom; again a dance floor with a bar and lounge areas. Dungeon Boudoir; a playroom filled with SM equipment. All rooms had stages, where various performances took place.

As with all Torture Garden events, the music on the main dance floor was loud... Very loud! People with a "normal" hearing, could pick up a pair of free earplugs at the bars.

It's always great when people show up in something different. There where many people in unique latex outfits. I where very impressed by the cute transparent latex nurse and the pink latex alligator!

I ran into load of friends during the evening; Alexander Horn, RubberDoll, Bianca Beauchamp, Ancilla Tilia, Kumi, MissFuzzyBunny, Belgium Marc to mention a few... And of course all the friends from Denmark and Sweden.

I had a ok time, but where a little disappointed about the party settings. The venue where much better in the previous years. The performances I saw where not that exciting and the bar staff had a hard time keeping up, so getting a drink took forever. I hope that next year will be better.

(Photos by Mark Bennett & A. Horn)

Friday at 11:20am, I arrived to London Heathow airport, with a suitcase full of rubber, ready for the Skin Two Rubber Ball Weekend. Very excited about the weekends events, I took the Piccadilly line toward central London.

After a little side track, where I met a latex friend from Holland, got totally drenched by a shower and ended up visited four fetish shops in a row, I checked in at a hotel near Kings Cross. Other Danes, including my older brother, where staying at the same hotel.

Two hours later, my brother and I, made our way to Soho to meet Nova and Atticus from FetishFlame and TG photographer Mark Bennett for dinner. It was good to see Mark again and great to finally meet Nova and Atticus in person. Yes, Nova and Atticus are just as cute as they sound on their fabulous fetish podcast.

After dinner we walked down Frith Street to "Rush" where the Skin Two Cocktail Party where. The small bar with it's three floors turned out to be a good location for the little 150 person meetup. I met and talked to many people; Genevieve (formerly with Buckle Magazine), Chanta Rose (porn acctress and author of Bondage for Sex), a bunch of Tgirls from RubberPal and naturally Tim, Liz and others from the Skin Two team. We stayed until 11pm and had a great time.

Coming up: Torture Garden Party.

Violet Blue's latest book Fetish Sex: An Erotic Guide for Couples is here!

Violet succeeded in creating a book that is the most thorough resource on the entire topic. A complete fetish compendium and sexual how-to, unafraid to address the most extreme fetishes alongside the 'tame' ones, and with plenty of links in the resource chapter. Violet says it's deeply compassionate, funny, warm, welcoming, respectful, extremely informative and practical - and also bizarrely titillating and arousing enough to inspire!

The fabulous Rubbersisters is celebrating their first anniversary. The sisters told me that their fetish has become a major part of their life, thanks to the website. Their main purpose is to inspire other people and themselves, so they are always open for new ideas and suggestions.

Monica and Jacline is thankful for all the support they have received from friends, members and sponsors, during their first year online. I send my warmest regards and whish them the best of luck in the forthcoming year.

This year, the Skin Two Rubber Ball Weekend starts tomorrow, with The Flash Monkey Cabaret. The evening presents an array of live acts and music and was described by Time Out as "a darker version of Moulin Rouge".

On Friday, the Cocktail Party will be held at Rush in Soho, hosted by the famously outrageous Ritzy Crackers. Its a great place to meet up for drinks before Torture Garden, or sit and socialise if you're saving your energy for the Rubber Ball on Saturday.

Later Friday the Torture Garden Skin Two Special is at the Renaissance Rooms in Vauxhall. Stage shows, installations and music, all in the inimitable Torture Garden style.

The Skin Two Expo runs from 1pm to early evening, on both Saturday and Sunday at The Barbican Exhibition Centre. Over 130 fetish designers and retailers from all over the world, gathered together in one place, selling clothes, shoes, accessories, jeweler, equipment, furniture, clubs, holidays, art, photography and books plus much more. As well as demonstrations, fashion shows and great music, this year.

The Skin Two Rubber Ball is on Saturday, at London's biggest club, SeOne, at London Bridge. This year's theme is "Stage and Screen". The Ball will celebrate fetish imagery in movies and on stage, from Rubber Marilyn Monroe to full-on Gladiator combat.

Sunday is the second day of the Skin Two Expo. After you've shopped til you drop, you can get something to eat; then dance and play as the UK Club Collective presents the Skin Two Rubber Ball Weekend Finale.

I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to this years Skin Two Rubber Ball Weekend. It's going to be a lot of fun! Please leave a comment if you are going too!

I have just added fifteen new shiny latex photos of Valentina, the fetish doll from Italy, to my latex gallery. Among them there is five shots from one of my favorite photo series, called "The Orange Room", where Valentina is playing wtth herself wearing sexy gray/green transparent latex with huge inflatable tits. Soooo hot!

I have also updated my personal "3xL & friends" gallery with various photos. Enjoy!

If you would like to have your own latex photos in my latex gallery, just send me a request by email with a sample photo. All I request in return is a banner link.

Labels: latex gallery

A friend spotted this ad for the new "F by Ferragamo" fragrance. The fragrance is described as a modern floral full of fruity and bright facets like jasmine flower, rose touched with spice, and orange flower rich with leathery undertones. A truly sensual floral bouquet.

Thanks, Valentina.